ConfigMgr 2007 R3 is making a step in Green IT with Power Management

This post is not meant as a guide for installing or configuring the R3 feature pack and/ or Power Management. I will just show, in a few screenshots and a bit explanation, what the possibilities are regarding the Power Management feature in ConfigMgr 2007 R3. As we all already knew, one of the coolest new features of ConfigMgr 2007 R3 would be Power Management. Another step in the direction of Green IT.  The Power Management feature provides a new Client Agent which enables you to apply power settings to client computers in the organization and monitor the power usage of these computers. How to Enable the Power Management Client Agent Open the Configuration Manager console and browse to System Center Configuration Manager > Site Database …

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Data Source Settings of the Reporting Services in ConfigMgr 2007 are grayed out

Since the release of ConfigMgr 2007 SP2, I’m running ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 R2 (in Native Mode) on Windows Server 2008 R2. After installing the ConfigMgr Reporting Services Point I noticed that I couldn’t configure the Reporting Services, because the Data Source Settings where grayed out. After doing some research and searching online I came on the FAQ about Reporting Services from the ConfigMgr Team. For those FAQ’s take a look at this link: http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam/archive/2009/05/14/faq-sql-reporting-services-integration-with-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-r2.aspx One of these FAQ’s is the following: Do we support https enabled report server instances? There are known issues in the R2 release with https enabled report server instances. There are some methods in the reporting services webservices  API that are inherently secure  methods and if SSL is configured on a …

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